σύλληψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō) +‎ -σις (-sis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sýl.lɛːp.sis/ → /ˈsyl.lip.sis/ → /ˈsi.lip.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sýl.lɛːp.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsyl.le̝p.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsyl.lip.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsyl.lip.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.lip.sis/

Noun

σύλληψῐς • (súllēpsĭs) f (genitive συλλήψεως); third declension

1. (the act of) seizing, arresting
2. conception

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σῠ́λληψῐς; τῆς σῠλλήψεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῠ́λληψῐς hē sŭ́llēpsĭs	τὼ σῠλλήψει tṑ sŭllḗpsei	αἱ σῠλλήψεις hai sŭllḗpseis
Genitive	τῆς σῠλλήψεως tês sŭllḗpseōs	τοῖν σῠλληψέοιν toîn sŭllēpséoin	τῶν σῠλλήψεων tôn sŭllḗpseōn
Dative	τῇ σῠλλήψει têi sŭllḗpsei	τοῖν σῠλληψέοιν toîn sŭllēpséoin	ταῖς σῠλλήψεσῐ / σῠλλήψεσῐν taîs sŭllḗpsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῠ́λληψῐν tḕn sŭ́llēpsĭn	τὼ σῠλλήψει tṑ sŭllḗpsei	τᾱ̀ς σῠλλήψεις tā̀s sŭllḗpseis
Vocative	σῠ́λληψῐ sŭ́llēpsĭ	σῠλλήψει sŭllḗpsei	σῠλλήψεις sŭllḗpseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: σύλληψη (sýllipsi)
• Latin: syllēpsis
  • → English: syllepsis
  • → German: Syllepse, Syllepsis
  • → Polish: syllepsa, syllepsis
  • → Portuguese: silepse (learned)

Further reading

• σύλληψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “σύλληψις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “σύλληψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • apprehension idem, page 36.
  • arrest idem, page 41.
  • seizure idem, page 750.